Tuesday Evening Watch – All is Quiet; Dot.ca Out & Beauty Into the Nest Box – 5/6/14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
Tonight I had a free hour or so to go downtown and see what Beauty and Dot.ca were up to. (7:00 – 8:15 pm) While driving downtown, I received a tweet from fellow falcon watcher Joyce that Beauty had arrived and was up on the base of Mercury. Beauty was still there when I arrived. I joined Joyce on Aqueduct St (aka the hole). Joyce was digiscoping pictures of Beauty when I arrived.
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Beauty was up on the base of Mercury, preening, stretching her wings and keeping guard over her territory. Due to not being able to view what is going on at the nest box, we could only assume that Dot.ca was taking his turn incubating the eggs.
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Beauty was alert to everything around her. Her head was in constant motion, tracking the birds that flew around her. Joyce and I could see that her crop was full, so she had eaten recently.
After stretching a bit, Beauty spread her wings and took off, heading towards the Times Square Bldg (TSB). She landed on the south east corner of the nest box platform and then entered the nest box. A few seconds later, Dot.ca appeared on the north east corner of the platform. There was no hesitation as he launched himself off of the platform and headed towards the OCSR.
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We watched as he flew out over the river and back, landing on the south side top IBeam of OCSR. A few moments later, he walked down to the west end of the top Ibeam.
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Just before 8:00 pm, Dot.ca took off again. Joyce and I said our goodbyes and I drove north looking for Dot.ca. I found him on the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT).
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It was a a beautiful evening to spend an hour watching our downtown Rochester Falcons. I am happy to report that all was peaceful and quiet there. Goodnight everyone!
